Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Hompesch (Room 103 - Level 1)
Date: Wednesday, 10/Sept/2025
2:00pm
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5:00pm		 WORKSHOP 3: Designing Ethical and Inclusive Futures Speculation, and Reflection
Location: Hompesch (Room 103 - Level 1)
Chair: Malene Harsaae, VIA University College
Chair: Anne Louise Bang, VIA Design
Date: Thursday, 11/Sept/2025
10:20am
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12:35pm		 1C: Challenges and opportunities to foster human-centred PSS
Location: Hompesch (Room 103 - Level 1)
Chair: Eoin White, University of Limerick
 
10:20am - 10:42am

Human-Centred Supervision: Shaping Future Designers Through Coaching in Final Year Projects

Ina O'Connor, Ceri Almrott

Technological University Dublin, Ireland


10:42am - 11:04am

DESIGN THINKING – FROM POST-ITS TO FINGERTIPS: RETHINKING EMBODIED COGNITION IN DESIGN

Aija Freimane

TU Dublin School of Art and Design, Ireland


11:04am - 11:26am

Investigation of the learning process in a recurrent education program with design and art thinking

Shiori Fujimaki, Akira Ito, Yuki Taoka, Shigeki Saito

Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan


11:26am - 11:48am

DESIGN FOR INCLUSION AND EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION FOR PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT IN “MANAGEMENT AND EVALUATION PROJECTS” CLASS

Carlos Alberto Gonzalez Almaguer1, Veronica Saavedra Gastelum1, Aranxa González de Heredia2, Natalia Frías Reid1, Luis Miguel Gutierrez Contreras1, Griselda Esthela Oyervides Ramirez1, Claudia Zubieta Ramírez1

1: Tecnologico de Monterrey; 2: Universidad de Mondragon


11:48am - 12:10pm

EXPERIENTIAL MACHINES TO ENHANCE LEARNING THROUGH PRODUCTIVE FAILURE

Stefan Persaud, Bas Flipsen, Robin Taen

TU Delft, Netherlands, The


12:10pm - 12:32pm

A STUDENT JOURNEY: TRANSFERRING HUMAN-CENTRED DESIGN EXPERIENCE TO A LECTURE EXERCISE INTEGRATING AI TOOLS

Marc NUTZMANN1,2, Thorsten SAUER1,2, Markus VOß3, Hulusi BOZKURT3

1: IHB Institute for Education and Higher Education Research, DHBW, Germany; 2: DHBW Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Ravensburg, Germany; 3: DHBW Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Mannheim, Germany
1:30pm
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3:00pm		 2C: New educational and teaching methods in product service systems education
Location: Hompesch (Room 103 - Level 1)
Chair: Anne Louise Bang, VIA Design
 
1:30pm - 1:52pm

EXPANSIVE LEARNING AS A SYSTEM DESIGN METHOD TO LEARN HUMAN-CENTRED DESIGN IN A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT SUBJECT

Mauricio Novoa Munoz, Aaleen Parulekar Prasad Hari

Western Sydney University, Australia


1:52pm - 2:14pm

EDUCATION IN COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

Kristine Klaeger, Thomas Eickhoff, Karl-Gerhardt Faißt, Jens C. Göbel

Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany


2:14pm - 2:36pm

The D+ framework. An educational model proposal to address contemporary challenges in strategic design courses

David Sánchez Ruano1, Valentina De Matteo2

1: Tec de Monterrey, Mexico; 2: Universitá di Bologna, Italia


2:36pm - 2:58pm

DEVELOPING STUDENT SUSTAINABILITY KNOWLEDGE, COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS THROUGH PRODUCT & SYSTEM DESIGN

Francesco Luke Siena1, Gamze Yakar-Pritchard2, Ana Rita Domingues3, Richard Bull4

1: Product Design Department, School of Architecture Design & The Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University; 2: School of Geography, University of Nottingham; 3: Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds; 4: School of Architecture Design & The Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University
3:20pm
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5:10pm		 3C: Teaching and learning in different life phases of products and services
Location: Hompesch (Room 103 - Level 1)
Chair: Valentina De Matteo, University of Bologna
 
3:20pm - 3:42pm

E-LEARNING AS AN EXTENSION OF TRADITIONAL TRAINING METHODS FOR DESIGNERS CHANGING CAD/PLM SYSTEMS

Liliane G. Ngahane Nana, Amaniyel Arslan, Sascha Adamczyk, Bugra Can, Senem Özmen

ARTECH Consulting GmbH, Germany


3:42pm - 4:04pm

Rethinking sketching education practices

Tijana Vuletic, Tom Hay

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom


4:04pm - 4:26pm

More Than a Feeling: Empathic Reflection Through Virtual Experiences

Amy Grech1, Lisa L. Barth2, Julian Rasch2, Bernhard E. Riecke3, Ross Brisco1, Andrew Wodehouse1

1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: LMU Munich, Germany; 3: Simon Fraser University, Canada


4:26pm - 4:48pm

CHILDREN CENTRED HYBRID DESIGN SPACES – NEXT RESILIENT DESIGNING GENERATION /-LAB

Marina-Elena Wachs

Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany


4:48pm - 5:10pm

Developing Ideation & Iterative Design Skills Through Human-Centred Product Design Projects

Francesco Luke Siena, Richard Malcolm, Paul Kennea

Product Design Department, School of Architecture Design & The Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Date: Friday, 12/Sept/2025
10:40am
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12:30pm		 4C: Product-service system design education in the AI era
Location: Hompesch (Room 103 - Level 1)
Chair: Philip Farrugia, University of Malta
 
10:40am - 11:02am

TRANSLATING AUDITORY STIMULI INTO FORM: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO TEACHING FORM GENERATION

Purba Joshi, Avinash Shende, Mandar Rane

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, India


11:02am - 11:24am

INDUSTRY 4.0 CAPACITY BUILDING THROUGH DESIGN & ENGINEERING COMPETENCE. AN EXPLORATIVE STUDY ON AI INTEGRATION IN TUSCAN TEXTILE SMES

Gabriele Goretti1, Daniele Mazzei2, Caterina Dastoli1, Lorenzo Masini3

1: DESTEC Department, University of Pisa, Italy; 2: Computer Science Department, University of Pisa, Italy; 3: Supermateria Srl


11:24am - 11:46am

ENHANCING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN EDUCATION: THE IMPACT OF GENERATIVE AI TOOLS ON MASTERING CREATIVITY TECHNIQUES

Maria Isabel Rodriguez-Ferradas, Tatiane Ballerini-Fernandes, Paz Morer-Camo

TECNUN - Universidad de Navarra, Spain


11:46am - 12:08pm

From Fascinated to Scared: Affective Responses of Designers Using Generative AI in the Design Process

Fabio Antonio Figoli, Francesca Mattioli, Lucia Rampino

Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy


12:08pm - 12:30pm

A comprehensive methodology to identify competence gaps in product and design engineering curricula

Georgi V. Georgiev1, Sohail Ahmed Soomro1, Emmanuel Balzan2, Maria Victoria Gauci2, Nathalie Buhagiar2, Pierre Vella2, Francesco Tamburrino3, Paolo Neri3, Beatrice Aruanno3, Andrew Wodehouse4, Ross Maclachlan4, Onisiforos Hadjionisiforou5, Heli Kuivila6, Noora Kitkala-Murto6, Kristina Mikkonen6, Philip Farrugia2

1: Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland; 2: University of Malta, Malta; 3: University of Pisa, Italy; 4: University of Strathclyde, UK; 5: Kinisiforos ltd.; 6: Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, University of Oulu, Finland
1:30pm
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3:20pm		 5C: Exploitation of systems design methods in product service systems education
Location: Hompesch (Room 103 - Level 1)
Chair: Ross Brisco, University of Strathclyde
Chair: Natalia Frias Reid, Tecnologico de Monterrey
 
1:30pm - 1:52pm

The effects of empathy priming on ideation

Tejas Dhadphale

University of Minnesota, United States of America


1:52pm - 2:14pm

Superprojects and superpowers: How teams within teams can enhance students interpersonal and engineering skill development

Marc Masen, Richard Silversides, Chris Guyott, Idris Kevin Mohammed, Chloe Agg

Imperial College London, United Kingdom


2:14pm - 2:36pm

Collaborative and participatory design of community spaces at local and municipal level - a multi-method approach

Björn R. Kokoschko1, Martin Wiesner2, Hannes Wilke2, Yigit Akyol2, Michael Schabacker1, Laura Augustin3, Hermann Wolfram Klöckner2

1: Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany; 2: Hochschule Anhalt; 3: none


2:36pm - 2:58pm

Leveraging Lean Six Sigma and AI for Human-Centred Process Optimisation in University Placement Services

Matthew White1, Dave Walsh2

1: Bournemouth & Poole College, United Kingdom; 2: Bournemouth University, United Kingdom